Its so freaking embarrassing how the simplest, basest expression of feminism - men hurting women for sexual gratification is bad - has been so easily abandoned by so many people on this, the Virgin Website.
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Its so freaking embarrassing how the simplest, basest expression of feminism - men hurting women for sexual gratification is bad - has been so easily abandoned by so many people on this, the Virgin Website.
I don't think there's going to be any kind of mass recognition of whats been happening as a result of anti terf nonsense, but there will be a point where a looooot of women will look back and cringe at how easily and completely they accepted other women / feminists as their enemy instead of fostering any kind of female class identity.
Sorry, not be defeatist. But as a black woman I think even if we somehow get control around the narrative that this version of the trans movement is liberal's/leftists version of "progressive" Anti- Feminism and point out the parallels between conservatives and trans-activists and acknowledge right-wingers are against this for self-serving reasons, people will find a way to change the story and blame feminists for the whole thing. Liberals/leftists will claim it was man-hating that caused this.
I think those fears and concerns are definitely justified, we've already seen how easily people will blame feminists who prioritize other women for anything that men do. That said, I don't know if I can condone personally that defeatist track, if only because it's a self fulfilling prophecy.
Doomerism is an actual tool these days in the era of social media outrage, and it's been used pretty handily to limit the people turning out to vote or who willingly participate in politics. This is how the Republican party has been doing so well in the culture war for twenty years while becoming less and less popular overall every election cycle. "There is no hope for women" might be a fun mantra that feels appropriate at the time, but it's repetition also serves no one but anti feminists in the long run.
The benefit however to this being a pattern is, humans are made to recognize patterns as they happen in front of us. Already we've seen people and specifically women noticing the pattern of male voices and lives being treated as inherently better than female ones. Women are able to find feminism in their own lives even if they've never read a text on the subject or don't know the right words, just from observing the world around her.
Even if the patriarchy is working overtime to convince women that the REAL problem is those pesky, ugly feminists, at the end of the day they modern day sexism and entitlement of men can't help but create more feminists. There's a powerful pattern to recognize there, if we're open to it.
We need to bring back the simplicity of "shut up." It's mean and accurate; sometimes you are just better suffering in silence with bad opinions and you don't get to make it other people's problem to parse out a grain of truth from a fountain of nonsense.
Thinking a lot about how the healthy and good beliefs that everyone deserves love including myself and that everything deserves to be able to express themselves in a productive way including myself have been so misused by horrible people (i.e. men) as an excuse to be demanding and spread nasty thoughts and desires and how i feel like if i attempt to ask for the same freedoms for myself just in order to get through a day without hating myself or constantly telling myself to close off any creative part of me then i'm a Bad Terrible Person.
Then someone on here says some shit like "nonfeminine lesbians are basically men for saying they like sex" and it's like like a flip fucking switches and i'm suddenly acting Me And Proud out of Pure Spite.
Like you'll call a black woman a terf for saying gender roles are bad but then self-flagellate before talking about pregnancy as a tool of oppression for women? It sounds like you're perpetuating the idea that women have to apologize for being women! Sounds uhh pretty shitty to me, no thanks! I don't want any! 👋😁